Modeling intrinsic potential for beaver (Castor canadensis) habitat to inform restoration and climate change adaptation.

ABSTRACT: Through their dam-building activities and subsequent water storage, beaver have the potential to restore riparian ecosystems and offset some of the predicted effects of climate change by modulating streamflow. Thus, it is not surprising that reintroducing beaver to watersheds from which they have been extirpated is an often-used restoration and climate-adaptation strategy. Identifying sites for reintroduction, however, requires detailed information about habitat factors-information that is not often available at broad spatial scales. Here we explore the potential for beaver relocation throughout the Snohomish River Basin in Washington, USA with a model that identifies some of the basic building blocks of beaver habitat suitability and does so by relying solely on remotely sensed data. More

SUBMITTER: Dittbrenner BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5831098 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature